re: #60 engineer cat

the rabbis speculate that good people after death might be privileged to be closer to god, in some vague way. that’s probably where the writer of thessalinians gets his idea.

You seem to be missing a basic tenant of Christianity.

Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.